Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll and State Police Minister Mark Ryan have joined more than 100 spectators to unveil a new service monument to the state's past and present police dogs this morning.

The monument, located at the Brisbane Dog Squad HQ in the southwest suburb of Oxley, was surrounded by over a dozen named stones representing past service dogs.

The ceremony comes just nearly a month after Police Dog Rambo was killed while tracking wanted man Alan Lace in Maryborough.

The much beloved Brisbane Festival will be making a bold return after promising to make up for lost time during it COVID hiatus last year. 

Event organisers say that the festival is sure to bring much excitement into the city as a slew of activities are open up across Brisbane for its two week run time. 

The highly anticipated river fire will also make its comeback and is sure to end the show with a bang after it was sorely missed last year.

Locally produced COVID vaccines won’t be made available until 2023 as Australian scientists push for manufacturing deals that match neighbouring countries. 

The government announced a $1.5 billion manufacturing plan last October and has opened talks with US company Moderna local facilities to produce the mRNA vaccines.

University of Queensland biotechnology professor Trent Munro says, “Australia fundamentally lacks the infrastructure to support our sovereign needs. We should be doing everything we can to attract the companies that can help” 

Restaurants in Sydney are lending a helping hand to fellow hospitality workers struggling without work during the state's extended lockdown order.

Bungalow 8 on the now deserted King street wharf restaurant strip is offering specialist bookings only, with a week long menu for fellow hospitality workers retrenched by COVID-19.

For those in the hospitality industry, the news of Sydney's extended stay-at-home order has come as devastating news, meaning a free meal could make all the difference.

Former prime minister John Howard says Australia bears a moral responsibility to help Afghan interpreters and other staff who worked with Australian agencies. 

John Howard has said “Where it is clearly the case that they could be in danger of retribution, we have an obligation to help them if necessary, by giving them visas to come to live in Australia.” 

“That is a moral obligation we have. And it was a moral obligation that was shamefully discarded many years ago when we pulled out of Vietnam."

Members of the Queensland Strawberry Growers' Association have expressed disappointment after the case against a former farm worker accused of placing needles in strawberries in 2018 was dropped.

My Ut Trinh, who was a farm supervisor at Berrylicious farm in Caboolture, north of Brisbane — was arrested after needles were found in punnets purchased at supermarkets.

The contamination scare resulted in a social media frenzy, with dozens of copycat cases reported to police across Australia.

A Queensland resident who travelled overseas has tested positive with COVID-19 and has active been in the community.

A public health alert for new contact-tracing sites in North Ipswich, Inala in Brisbane’s west and at Brisbane Airport has been released by health authorities as of yesterday.

Some of the venues visited include Kmart, Vodafone, Telstra and JB Hi-Fi in Ipswich’s Riverlink shopping centre.

The Queensland government has warned the 480 NRL players and staff who recently departed from Sydney of immediate deportation, if they fail to comply with bubble conditions over the next 14 days.  

Following the Dragons house party and Jai Arrow’s Origin hotel room scandals, the NRL can’t afford another black eye as 12 clubs landed on the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast for day one of operation relocation.

A former chief executive of a multimillion-dollar technology company could have “put everyone at risk” after he sailed from a Sydney hotspot and lied on his border pass to enter Queensland from locked-down Sydney.

Melbourne businessman Jeromy Young, the co-founder of Atomos, a video technology company, was one of four people on board who were fined $5000 each by authorities in Queensland and NSW.

The group have so far returned negative COVID-19 tests, but Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk described the situation as disappointing.